Passive Voice Checker is a free AI tool. Paste your text into the passive voice checker to find each passive sentence, see why it is passive, and get an active voice rewrite of the whole draft.
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A passive voice checker finds passive sentences in text you paste in, explains why each one is passive, and gives an active voice rewrite. It is for writers, students and anyone editing a report who wants direct sentences instead of vague ones. You paste your draft, and the tool returns marked-up feedback plus a fully rewritten version.
Copy your writing into Your Text, then choose the Reader Address for Rewrites, such as You, We or a Third Person option that fits your document.
Pick a Legitimate Passive Policy, such as keeping passive voice when the actor is unknown, and choose a Missing Agent Policy for sentences without a clear subject.
Set Accountability Sensitivity and Additional Fixes if you want zombie nouns cleaned up too, then press Check My Text to see each passive sentence and the full rewrite.
Passive voice can hide who is responsible for an action, so checking a report before it goes out helps make sure decisions and next steps are attributed clearly to a person or team.
Active voice sentences are usually shorter and more direct than their passive equivalents, which is a common editing target in style guides written for clear, plain business or academic writing.
Passive voice is not automatically wrong: setting the policy to keep it when the actor is unknown or irrelevant avoids rewriting sentences where that phrasing is actually the better choice.
It is a tool that scans text you paste in, flags each passive sentence with an explanation, and provides an active voice rewrite for that sentence and for the full text you had originally submitted.
You can try it without an account, though free use has a daily limit. It only reads the text you paste in and cannot check a document you have not typed or pasted into the form.
Results vary between runs, and borderline cases can be judged differently, so review the flagged sentences yourself, especially in technical or legal writing where exact wording matters most to the eventual, final intended reader overall.
Look for a form of the verb to be followed by a past participle, such as was written or is being reviewed, where the subject receives the action instead of performing that action directly itself.
No. Passive voice is useful when the actor is unknown, unimportant, or intentionally left out, such as in some scientific or legal writing, but overuse can make prose feel indirect and vague to attentive readers.
The passive sentence the report was written by the team can become the team wrote the report in active voice, moving the actual doer of the action to the front of the sentence for clarity.
Expand a short passage after tightening its passive sentences, when you need more length.
Pair a cleaned-up, active-voice draft with a strong title for the finished essay.
Active, direct sentences matter even more when a text is meant to be read aloud.
Resume writing benefits from the same active voice habits this checker encourages.
Choose how the active voice rewrites should address the reader or subject.
How should the tool handle passives that might be intentionally used?
How should the tool recover the actor when it's missing from a passive sentence?